Today seemed like a good day to visit a State Park to see the local wildlife. We chose Alafia River State Park, because none of us had been there before. We called in to see some ramps on the way, which meant that we did not arrive until lunch time. We saw the picnic benches and the sign for the State Park, so parked the car and chose our picic bench. However it was a bit like Custer’s Last Stand, as there were two men cutting grass. They chose to cut the grass round our bench as we were eating, so we sat munching away while the grass cutters went round and round the picnic bench, putting up clouds of dust and grass. The park looked a bit basic, but we were determined to enjoy our visit. We walked a little way along the river side, but it was very hot and we saw very little wild life. In fact most the wild life we saw was very little. We found a number of very interesting spiders, some were an inch and a half long, and we are talking the body length, not including legs, they were ugly. We also saw some interesting hairy spiders, they looked similar to tarantulas, but smaller. No we didn’t attempt t find out if they were poisonous.
As we were about to leave, slightly disappointed by the lack of facilities and information we saw a notice board that said the Alafia River State Park Visitor Center was 1¾ miles down the road – we had come to the wrong place. However the actual park wasn’t much better. When we got home we had a BBQ, very nice.
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